Buck Webster is an aging beekeeper, volunteer firefighter and Emergency Medical Responder in the Oregon Coast Mountains. He is trying to finish his honey harvest when his department is called out for a crash on a cliff the truck drivers call "Dead Dog." Buck arrives in time to hear a dying man's last words. The cryptic comments send Buck on a search for a killer, deep into some of the wildest country in the Pacific Northwest timber lands. Buck's misspent youth and checkered past has left h...

Becoming a widow is one of the most traumatic life events that a woman can experience. Yet, as this remarkable new collection reveals, each woman responds to that trauma differently. Here, forty-three widows tell their stories, in their own words.Some were widowed young, while others were married for decades. Some cared for their late partners through long terminal illnesses, while others lost their partners suddenly. Some had male partners, while others had female partners. Yet ea...

Get to know the first African American Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall in this middle grade nonfiction biography of his early years!The childhood of civil rights hero and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall comes to life in this engaging biography. Whenever Thurgood Marshall got into trouble at school, the principal would make him sit in the basement and read the US Constitution. By the time he was twelve, he had most of it memorized, and his interest i...